Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
Census Information
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Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
I never lived in Osage City, KS, but did live in a nearby city (Overbrook). I did, however, work for the ambulance service in the county which was run out of a funeral home in Osage City. This would have been in the early 1980’s. The service was run by Max Crable. The only evidence I have of this being a sundown town involves the location of a smaller community called Dogtown, which was for a long time, just outside the city limits. The only Blacks in the community lived there. When the siren sounded in the evening, I once asked a co-worker why it sounded, he stated it was for the fire department, but it wasn’t always that way. His name was Jerry, but no matter how hard i rack my brain, I cannot remember the last name. His daughter and wife also worked part time for the ambulance service. I was either not that interested or too uneducated at the time to inquire further about the meaning of it wasn’t always that way. I did call a friend still on the Overbrook Police Departmen
t, who said they now sound the siren at noon instead of in the evening to “…test it in case of tornado activity…”.